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I read it as a straightforward "Goodbye. I love the story and I love the community, but I can't put up with the vitriol."
Query: is that passive aggressive? I don't think it is. Maybe it seems passive aggressive to you because you disagree with him, and it doesn't seem passive aggressive to me because I agree with him. Maybe I don't see it as passive aggressive because I feel exactly the same way with a completely different fandom?
I guess his "From some of the same people" could be passive aggressive, but what's more constructive? "From some of the same people, who I am not going to name" or "From some of the same people. You know who you are, Bob, Dick, and Henry." In my experience, actually naming people makes it personal and nasty.
I don't know. What I took away from his post is that neither Bungie nor Trautmann are necessarily dicks, we keep bickering at each other, and a lot of our conversations turn toward "Bungie never gave us what we wanted" and "343i couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag if they had Neil Gaiman on the phone walking them through step by step."*
This came up a few weeks ago, and at the time I sad that negativity isn't breaking us apart. Having had sufficient time to ponder the question, my answer must change. HBO is dying while other equally negative communities are thriving because we aren't a bunch of fans. We're friends who get together to play a cool game. Negativity ruins that.
*Adjusts shirt collar